Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Aleph -- The "uncanny feeling" of getting lost -- The delicious flavour of getting lost -- Structure of the book and methodology -- Notes -- PART I: Orientation/disorientation -- 1. Orientation/disorientation in physical space -- Lost in translation -- North, South, East, West, the four dwarfs of the Edda -- Of stars, winds, and mountains -- Losing one's bearings: the origin of the compass -- Where is North? -- Lost on the map -- Notes -- 2. (Dis)orienting oneself in thinking -- The art of losing isn't hard to master -- You are here -- The cognitive map -- Finding oneself "turned around" and walking straight in circles -- Maps and routes -- Notes -- 3. Philosophies of disorientation -- On space -- (Dis)orientation and Kant -- Kant and space -- The metaphor of dis-orientation -- Lifeworld and phenomenology -- The post-phenomenological approach -- Migration as a process of disorientation and reorientation -- Out of place -- Notes -- PART II: Lost subjects -- 4. It doesn't matter which way you go: the lived body and disorientation -- Gender relations and spatial tasks -- Hunters and gatherers? -- Women can't read maps? -- Ariadne, lady of the labyrinth -- Sexual (dis)orientation -- Note -- 5. "On the origin of certain instincts"--Disorientation of bodies that do not quite belong -- "Cet instinct qui sert à l'indigène de guide infaillible"--The instinct debate in Nature -- Animal migration -- Notes -- 6. Different spatial abilities -- A phenomenological approach to orientation disorders -- Drugs, hallucinations, tripping -- Losing one's mind and spatial disorientation -- Developmental Topographical Disorientation (DTD) -- Aging and spatial cognition -- Alzheimer's disease -- Notes